Lead Human Resources Business Partner

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Human Resources Business Partner - Vice President. The Lead HRBP will drive enterprise HR strategy by partnering with senior leadership to translate business priorities into actionable people plans, providing data-driven insights, and ensuring robust talent and succession governance. This role oversees performance management, organizational design, compensation planning, leadership development, HR governance, and ability to navigate seamlessly in a matrix organization.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives including those that are cross functional and have broad impact
• Act as key participant in large scale planning
• Review and analyze complex, multi-faceted, large-scale, and long-term business challenges that require in depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors
• Provide forward looking, strategic human resources consultation, resulting in comprehensive human capital strategies for a complex business or enterprise function
• Use understanding of business and enterprise goals to identify needs, opportunities, solutions, and risks relating to human resources programs and services, workforce productivity and engagement, organizational design and performance, talent management, and diversity and inclusion
• Assess and consult on the impact of human capital strategies, make recommendations for adjustments or enhancements, and ensure execution of the human capital plan to achieve business and risk objectives
• Partner with executive and more experienced leaders to anticipate opportunities to influence and lead change that will improve individual, team, and enterprise performance
• Embrace the Human Resources Operating Model by proactively and effectively collaborating with internal partners to positively influence outcomes

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Human Resources Business Partner experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in HR management
• Experience in managing employee count of 1400+, focusing on core HR activities like performance management & HR advisory
• Experience in GCC/BFSI/FinTech industry
• Track record influencing executives and leading organizational transformation

Job Expectations:

• Strategic Business Partnership: Advise executives on workforce strategy, risk mitigation, and drive HRBP model implementation
• Succession & Talent Governance: Lead succession and talent planning.
• Performance & Promotions: Manage performance review cycles, calibration, promotions, and reward alignment
• Organizational Effectiveness: Guide organizational design, restructuring, and transformation initiatives
• Culture & Engagement: Foster corporate values, engagement and retention strategy
• Leadership Development: Identify capability gaps, coach leaders, and drive accountability frameworks
• HR Governance & Compliance: Ensure policy adherence, risk mitigation, and consistency across HRBP practices

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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